EXCLUSIVE: SXSX Special Jury Award winner Yes, God, Yes, starring Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Timothy Simons (Veep) and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), has been picked up for international sales by Highland Film Group. Writer-director Karen Maine's well-received (Obvious Child) comedy follows a Catholic teenager in…

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has come on board to handle international rights to Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo action drama Boss Level. The company, which is led by Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, is launching the Joe Carnahan-directed picture at Berlin and joins its EFM slate, which also includes Tye Sheridan's T…

Get Him To The Greek star Russell Brand is heading back to the big screen in action feature Butterfingers. The comedian is to play a hitman in the movie, which is directed by I, Anna's by Barnaby Southcombe and based on a script from Full Nelson's Tom Nash. Butterfingers will be produced and financed by The Fyzz Facili…

EXCLUSIVE: X-Men and Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan is to front crime drama The Night Clerk, written and directed by Original Sin director and Bonfire of the Vanities screenwriter Michael Cristofer. The film is produced by David Wulf, producer of forthcoming Nic Cage vehicle Looking Glass, and Highland Film Group…

EXCLUSIVE: As the AFM gears up, Highland Film Group has boarded worldwide rights on Josh Hartnett-starrer Gut Instinct. Directed and written by Daniel Roby (Versailles), the crime thriller also stars Antoine-Olivier Pilon (Mommy). Based on a true story, the film follows an investigative journalist (Hartnett) who…

Nicolas Cage is set to star in Highland Film Group’s action thriller A Score To Settle, from Beautiful Boy director Shawn Ku. Cage stars as Frank, a convicted mob enforcer battling a terminal illness who is released from prison many years after taking the fall for a crime he didn't commit. Now free, he sets out on a…

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has locked several international territories on Bruce Willis-starrer Reprisal, directed by Brian A. Miller. Project is written by Bryce Hammons and produced by Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films' Randall Emmett, George Furla and Mark Stewart. Sold territories for the pic include France…

Brenton Thwaites has signed on to star in supernatural psychological thriller Ghosts Of War, based on an original script by Eric Bress who will also direct. Miscellaneous Entertainment's D. Todd Shepherd, Joe Simpson and Shelley Madison are producing and financing the project with Adrian Jayasinha exec producing. Highl…

Chris Gorak is set to direct the sci-fi thriller Attach, based on his original script and starring Chronicle's Alex Russell. Adam Shroeder will produce under his Adam Schroeder Entertainment banner alongside Rob Paris of Paris Film Inc. Highland Film Group will handle international sales and launch the project to…

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed a number of key international territory deals in Toronto for Scott Mann's Final Score, starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan. Alexandra Dinu and Julian Chen also star in the thriller written by the Brothers Lynch and Jonathan Frank. The story sees an ex-soldier forced to…

Richard Gere will star in Jon Avnet’s Three Christs with Highland Film Group financing and selling international rights. CAA will rep domestic rights. Three Christs is based on a biographical novel by Milton Rokeach about a doctor treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in…

Margot Robbie has boarded Vaughn Stein’s noir thriller Terminal. David Barron of BeaglePug (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2) and Molly Hassell (The Trust) will produce alongside Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, Sophia Kerr and Robbie under their production company LuckyChap Entertainment. Stein is also…